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From: jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com (Justin Masters )
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: "Spybuster" AD COPY
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Date: 24 Aug 89 02:13:43 GMT
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In article <647@anasaz.UUCP> john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
+
+The ironic thing is that I would probably use one IN an airplane
+as a collision alert detector. It's a strange triumph of free
+market over government control that this device is available
+for $299, and would be quite useful as an airborne anti-collision
+warning device with slightly different programming; meanwhile the
+FAA has been twiddling around for 20 years and has yet to come
+up with an effective and affordable airborne anti-collision device.

Wouldn't you just get the reflections from a plane at 0 feet?  Seems to me it
would cancel out other planes' signals and get yours.


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